In its desire to develop public transport, the Ile-de-France may finally not forget the Val-d'Oise. A new metro line passing through Argenteuil should indeed be included in the new master plan to "complete the Grand Paris Express" by anchoring the department, said Monday the president of the region, Valérie Pécresse.

"This is a new project that has been submitted by the Val-d'Oise, a department that has been orphaned by the Grand Paris Express", the metro currently under construction around the capital, explained Valérie Pécresse to journalists on the sidelines of the presentation of renovated metro trains for line 6.

A network that is "missing today"

This "line 19", proposed "by 2040", would connect Nanterre, Argenteuil and Saint-Denis, which "would really make it possible to completely mesh the network, and make a loop in the department of Val-d'Oise, which is lacking today" especially since it "has a very strong economic dynamic", according to her. The line would connect in Nanterre with lines 15 and 18 and in Saint-Denis with lines 15, 16 and 17 of the Grand Paris Express, currently under construction or planned.

The draft Master Plan of the Ile-de-France region (SDRIF) presented Monday by Valérie Pécresse adds a long branch to this future line 19, which would connect Argenteuil to the prefecture of Val-d'Oise, Cergy. The SDRIF "really wants to develop polycentralities", with "points of support in each department", such as Argenteuil whose service is "a very, very good idea", she notes.

In search of funding

It will be necessary to find the funding to "complete the scheme of the Grand Paris Express", recognizes the elected (LR), also president of Ile-de-France Mobilités, the regional transport authority.

The Master Plan of the Ile-de-France region provides long-term land use planning and must be respected by local elected officials in their urban plans. The document, which is to replace a previous version adopted in 2013, proposes to project itself in 2040. In particular, for the Grand Paris Express, it includes extensions of line 14 from Orly to Morangis and line 18 from Versailles to Nanterre, as well as from Orly to Montgeron.

In addition, more or less long-term extensions of lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, perhaps 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the metro, the completion of the northern transversal (T11), as well as the creation of a "line S" of suburban trains to save time compared to the RER D between Paris, Juvisy and Malesherbes.

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